

Passion in Leading: Motivational Professional Development
Dave McGlynn

Passion in Leading is a professional development course developed through lessons learned while dealing with a diverse group of leaders. It is designed for all leaders and aspiring leaders in emergency services. Designed to motivate leaders to incorporate passion in their leadership style while inspiring their people to love the job as much as them. Passion is our fuel, it’s what makes us go where we go, unfortunately we lose that fuel and we become complacent. This course will help bring you back to that day when you first became a firefighter and remind you of that love and eliminate the complacency that has set in over the years. Passion is the difference between doing things because you WANT to and doing things because you HAVE to. The best leaders have the drive and passion to make themselves and their people better every day. Course purpose and objectives: The purpose of this course is to prepare up-coming leaders while refreshing current leaders of why incorporating passion into their leadership is important. The course brings them back to day one while covering all of the different challenges and levels of maturity you go through as you grow into a leader. It discusses team building, the importance of honesty and good communication while creating awareness of bad traits like gossip, malice and ego. It teaches you how to eliminate complacency and strive for success, how to achieve goals in both life and your career. The difference between pride and ego and most importantly the different sides of the passion sword. How using passion for good things will help you become a great leader or by using passion in a close-minded blind way will make you lose your following.